Gooijer, who has served for 25 years as CEO for the Federation of Dutch Health Care Organizations and as its representative to the European Hospital and Health Care Federation, has written a persuasive argument for the negative potential impact on society of market-driven health care. Citing in detail statistical studies from the EU and maintaining a historical context, Gooijer investigates the impact on health care of a political climate that embraces globalization and its attendant favoring of market forces. Drawing on the writings of an impressive array of economic thinkers, Gooijer devotes the initial third of the volume to assessing the changes in European society that have occasioned the shift to a market-dominant philosophy for social services. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)